Axis History Forum

This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day.
Founded in 1999.

I have always liked the big 42cm guns used by the Germans in WWI and WWII. Ugly for sure but a big piece of art in their own way.
There is very little technical data available for these weapons so I never quite had enough information in order to do them accurately.
I basically finished up with my M1 and K3 designs and some new data became available that answered a few technical questions I had wrt the design so I decided to take a crack at Gamma-Gerät.
I attached a few pictures showing some initial work in progress and one showing Gamma-Gerät relative size as compared to the Rheinmetall M1 and K3 guns.
I decided to build Gamma in both 1/72nd scale and 1/35th scale and even in 1/72nd scale its a pretty large little model

happy modeling

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Hi - part of the benefits of modeling subjects from a technical perspective (as opposed to modeling for purely illustration or gaming purposes) is that it sometimes allows you to analyze the mechanical aspects of a design and figure out it's mysteries. A case in point. Gamma has this bracket arm assy looking thing with a cylindrical object connected to it towards the rear of the gun mount. I don't like adding a geometry to a model that I have no clue as to what it was for. I have tried to confirm and figure out what the object was used for and I think I now have a good guess. The large circular object is a counterweight and the bracket arm thing it is attached to flips 90 degrees when the barrel is being inserted to provide a roller so the barrel has something to rest on as is it slid into the mount/Wiege. The whole assy flips down and is secured into a stored position after the barrel has been inserted and as the rear deck platform is added. The counterweight just enhances balance that makes the effort of flipping it less difficult (since the assy has to be structurally heavy enough itself to support the heavy barrel).

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Dear Sir , my name is Dan Silvestru I am from Romania ( Dan Models Co. ) and I will be interested to make this superb big gun in resin . Please PM me or contact by facebook to tell your conditions. Also I will be interested on the 24 cm K3 too . Dan